I’m a recent graduate with a Bachelors of Science in Information Science degree focused on Web Development, and have about 3 years professional experience as a Web Developer and 2 years as an IT Worker before that.
My thesis was on Virtual Reality learning and I have a huge interest in EdTech… Hoping to get back to Japan (I exchanged at a University in Tokyo) and also looking to gain some insight into education from the educators perspective, I took a job teaching English. That said, this is not a career nor is it a good use of my background long-term.
Over the next year I hope to develop a new/better portfolio and do some free-lance work, as-well as start contributing to open-source projects in preparation for finding a WebDev job in Tokyo (or North Kanto). That said, I’m absolutely terrified of the interview. While I worked myself to a more involved position in my web dev job, I was hired as an Entry Level candidate and at the time just had to show a working knowledge of HTML/CSS. I do know PHP, c#, and am pretty decent at Javascript, though I might be more front-end leaning than back-end. I also understand the stack and unix commands to a degree.
What can I expect from interviews for being a Web Dev (even entry) in Tokyo? Will there be white board tests? How prepared should I be?
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I’d greatly appreciate any advice or information on what the interview process for your Tokyo Dev job was like.
Thanks for reading! I know I’m a long winded individual.